Edit: I forgot to say that when I've finished tweaking the Mint-X-2 theme, I move it (as root) to /usr/share/themes, because some apps such as Update Managerlook "ugly" if you just leave the new theme Mint-X-2 in ~/.themes.

Edit: I forgot to say that when I've finished tweaking the Mint-X-2 theme, I move it (as root) to /usr/share/themes, because some apps such as Update Managerlook "ugly" if you just leave the new theme Mint-X-2 in ~/.themes.

LOL nice to see you again thanks again broim gonna work on it when i get back homemy nemo.css file is from Zukitwo (sp?)

regarding the bolded part: funny thing, i just had to do the same thing about an hour ago. i ran the update manager and it looked terrible so i decided to put the theme in the root theme folder and it fixed it

I've never tried it with anything else other than just tweaking the default Mint-X theme as above.So can't say if you'll get a similar result.I'm no expert - I'm just messing around with it and I just know this has worked for me.

I know very little about editing .css files in themes, but I had a go, using LM14 Cinnamon - but have only been partially successful.

I copied Mint-X theme from /usr/share/themes to ~/.themesRenamed the copy of Mint-X to Mint-X-blueskyCopied an image into ~/.themes/Mint-X-bluesky/gtk-3.0/apps (I copied this image - /usr/share/mdm/themes/Sea/sea.jpg)Only changed the file nemo.css like this - adding some lines to the original file (please don't laugh at my .css editing attempt ):I didn't edit any other files in the theme at this stage.

But, there are a few things wrong with it that I don't know how to fix :

The background image I put in, is in places I don't want it:- the sidebar right-click menu (the other menus are ok)- the menubar background- the background of "Location" and "Search"- the background of the bar on the bottom right of the picture - I don't know what it's called.- the background of the text under the folder icons

I'm sure it can be done - just editing nemo.css properly , so it doesn't alter anything else in the theme.I later tried editing some things in gtk-widgets.css without much success - I don't know which lines to change but I would like to only edit the file nemo.css - and keep the rest of the theme as it was originally - is this possible???I'm trying to only change the "white" background of the window.

I've been able to fix my menubar background problem, and partially removed the sidebar right-click menu background - it now has some white space in the background unlike before, but the "boxes" with the background image remain.

I edited gtk-widgets.css (couldn't figure out what exactly to put in nemo.css):adding this into some places in the sections in gtk-widgets.css file - menu, menubaritem and menuitem

I haven't been able to fix all the problems above in LM14 Cinnamon .....

But - just out of curiosity, I copied the new theme Mint-X-bluesky (as is) into a flashdrive install of LMDE Cinnamon 201303- and to my surprise, it displayed correctly without most of the problems seen in LM14 Cinnamon!

Note that these images above are of the themes in Cinnamon in LMDE Cinnamon 201303 where they are displaying correctly.If using the themes in LM14 Cinnamon, you will see results like in the previous post - ie. with the problems unsolved.

here ya go they added some more toys for you to play with nemo.http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/05/n ... omment-103click the link in the article and snag the added file, choose raw from the menu save page as to where ever you want it to be saved and your good to go.Sam

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